Fact Check Posts – Page 16

Health Care for America Now
stated on October 15, 2009 in a television ad:

Health proposal would create a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 21, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2009 in his weekly address:

"The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 19, 2009

Save Flexible Spending Plans
stated on October 14, 2009 in a news release:

The Baucus health care bill "would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to help pay for health care reform."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2009

Nancy-Ann DeParle
stated on October 12, 2009 in an interview on "The NewsHour":

A report by the health insurance industry "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 in a press conference:

After Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, "Bush's approval rating never was better, it only got worse."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 1, 2009

House Republican Conference
stated on September 22, 2009 in an article on its Web site:

Medicare officials have treated Humana and AARP inconsistently on how they can communicate with seniors.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 30, 2009

Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on September 9, 2009 in a letter to AARP:

AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2009

Republican National Committee
stated on September 28, 2009 in a Web ad:

Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 28, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on September 23, 2009 in an interview on "The Colbert Report":

Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's "No. 1 private contributor."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 25, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopolous.":

"Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 21, 2009 in interview on "Late Night with David Letterman":

"FDR was called a socialist and a communist."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 in an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2009

Keith Olbermann
stated on September 16, 2009 in his television show "Countdown":

For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009

Tom Price
stated on September 14, 2009 in a fundraising letter:

"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009

Chain email
stated on August 24, 2009 in a message forwarded to many people:

A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in a speech to Congress:

Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009

Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 in the audience at a joint session of Congress:

"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in a speech to a joint session of Congress:

"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in a speech to Congress:

If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 in his television program:

Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009

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